Web question... 1515 Responses

Last post: 7 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Apr 17, 08, 4:07 a.m.

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• Raniator

  You know when you type a web address that points to a path such as:

  www.example.com/images/march

  it is says "you do not have permission to view this virtual directory" or words to that effect...

  How can you make it say that?

  Apr 17, 08, 4:07 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  I don't mean the "not found" message...

  I mean is there a way of making directories that do exist unavailable to view by 'editing' the address and going back a couple of steps.

  I mayk senz, plees?

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:08 a.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  something about turning off the indexing in cpanel or somewhere else.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:09 a.m. – Permalink

• blaw

  There are different ways to set the permissions, the easiest being setting them on the server via your hosting admin. Another route is to use htaccess.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:11 a.m. – Permalink

• mikeim

  make a .htaccess file and put the following code:
  Options -Indexes
  in it and place in root of your web server

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:12 a.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  It's about the configuration of the web server.
  Just check the hosting plan (usually linux= apache and win=iis)
  i don't know about IIS too much, but on apache you need to edit the apache configuration file to do this kind of things
  Check on the relative websites for more instructions.

  • but first do the .htaccess thing– Fariska

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:13 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  It tends to be the default server setting for folders that don't contain some kind of index page - try deleting your index. html/htm/php/etc or renaming it from 'index'. But yeah, it's a server-side setting involving your .htaccess, as blaw points out.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:13 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  ok, thanks guys.

  i'll start with my control panel settings, .htaccess etc...

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:14 a.m. – Permalink

• Corvo

  most servers are set to prevent directory listing, i think. To make it happen all you need is to delete the index.* page. in the directory.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:19 a.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  Index Manager in cpanel is your answer. no need to fuck around with .htacess files.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:20 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  what if i don't have an Index Manager?

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:21 a.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  You need to dig around the FAQ/Knowledgebase/whatever of your web host and find out from them how you are supposed to amend your server-side details (.htaccess, or whatever). There's no single-way of doing it.

  • Who are you with?– detritus

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:24 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  names.co.uk

  • for no reason other than i got 50% off for the year and i can see their office out the window.– Raniator

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:30 a.m. – Permalink

• crillix

  If you can't find a way to turn off the directory browsing you can always throw a blank index.htm, or whatever is the default, in the directory. It won't give a person an error but it won't let them browse the directory either.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:41 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  ok, nailed it.

  they have a htAdmin script that i've just installed which allows me to fuck around with .htaccess files, set custom error pages etc etc...

  so i put 'Options -Indexes' in the .htaccess file and everything is good.

  thanks guys, i've never have worked that out for myself :)

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  for example:

  www.steveranford.co.uk/stuff

  used to list the contents of the directory. now you just get that horrible error page. job done.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 4:45 a.m. – Permalink